Each month Fairwarp WI organises a speaker come to entertain us or another event or outing. We try to make each meeting as varied as possible so there is something there for everyone over the year. Here is our programme for 2026/7:-

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9 June 2026

Visit to Christ Church, Tower and Bell ringing

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Caroline Shaw and her husband Chris will tell us about Christ Church with an opportunity to climb the tower and/or have a go at bell ringing!

 

14 July 2026

Tony Rawlins

Mad Men and the Artists

 

How advertising has exploited fine art, putting Michelangelo’s David in a pair of cut-off jeans, turning the Mona Lisa’s enigmatic smile into a cheesy grin for a toothpaste ad, or adding a speech bubble to the Virgin Mary in Fra Angelico’s Annunciation when the Angel Gabriel tells her she’s going to have a baby and she says “ Thanks but I already know” to promote a pregnancy testing kit.

 

August Dinner 2026

Foresters Arms, Fairwarp

 

8 September 2026

Ian Dowding

Banoffi Pie and other Adventures

 

The talk describes the early part of my career as a chef in the restaurant business, my early influences and how I created the dessert that was to become world famous. Also the serendipity of how the fame spread and became a favourite of the Royal Family and other famous people and how the word (whichever way it was spelt – Banoffi or Banoffee) eventually made it into the Oxford English Dictionary.

 

13 October 2025

Goodbye Christopher Robin film

 

Starting earlier at 7pm we will watch the film on the big screen - finishing about 8.50pm – with suitable snacks on a cocktail table layout (popcorn, crisps etc). We can break for refreshment collecting half way through.

 

10 November 2026

Around the bonfire – home entertainment

 

Members talk about themselves and bring readings to share

 

8 December 2025

Christmas Party

 

12 January 2027

Robert Slater

Ghosts and Legends of Sussex

 

9 February 2027

Stuart Corner

Secret life of the Honey Bee - Part Two

 

9 March 2027

106th Birthday Party

 

13 April 2027

Exhibition of Members crafts and hobbies

 

Members can bring craft items or other hobby stuff to display and talk about how they got into it, why they like it etc.

 

11 May 2027

Annual Meeting

Jacqui Horton

On the Trail of Jane Austen